Device for toilet use.



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DEVICE FOR TOILVE'T USE. APPLICATION msn um. 14. 191s.

Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

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DEVICE FOR TOILET USE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

Application filed January 14, 1916. Serial No. 72,161.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK GRANT, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Westfield, in the county of `Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain newv and useful Improvements in Devices for Toilet Use, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a device for toilet use, such as a shaving brush, a tooth brush or other utensil or obj ect, or both combined, and has for one of its objects to provide a casing or inclosure for the brush, or supplemental brush, or other object so that when not in use the same will be covered, but when in use the casing may serve as the handle by which the brush is held and manipulated.

. The invention is described vin conjunction with the accompanying drawing, and is set forth in the claim.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view,'

showing a combined shaving brush and tooth brush, and a casing or closure therefor adapted to serve as the handle for either of` the brushes, and when such brushes are notv in use, to serve as a closure for both thereof. In this view the covering sheath for the casing is shown as withdrawn from its distended position to leave one of the brushes exposed for use.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. l, but showing the tooth brush omitted, and indicating the manner in which the distended sheath may be utilized for a closure for a different article of toilet use, as, for instance, a stick of shaving soap.

Referring to the drawing, A represents a shaving brush having therefor a cross sectionally circular carrying member or shank B formed with a forwardly tapering portion a, and also with a rearwardly tapering portion b.

C represents a shell or casing formed at one end with an internal taper d outwardly widening or flaring.

The opposite end of the casing is outwardly expanded so that the tapered external wall y' is produced.

G represents a sheath or cylindrical shell to diametrically slide without obstruction over the expanded or beveled external surface lo of the casing C at its end portion which is formed with the aforementioned internalbevel d.

The opposite end of the sheath G is contracted or inwardly crimped ory deflected as shown at m so that when the sheath is slid in the manner represented in Fig. 1 the contracted extremity m will have a pinching bind against or in engagement with the bevel surface j of the expanded end portion of the casing C, and also so that when the sheath is oppositely slid to form a cover for inclosing a utensil or object which is supplemental to the shaving brush, at a time when the shaving brush is not to be used, the contracted portion m will have binding engagement with the tapered surface la externally formed on the opposite end of the casing.

The sheath being withdrawn from its distended position, as shown in Fig. 2, to the position represented in Fig. l, the supplemental utensil, for instance a tooth brush D, as represented in Fig. l, may be used, employing the casing, and the sheath frictionally bound thereon between the portions m and j as the handle.

Assuming the parts are in the relations shown in Fig. 1 and it is desired to render the shaving brush available for use, the shaving brush carrying shank member B, having its taper portion a in engagement with thel internal tapered wall Z of the casing C, is pulled endwise outwardly, the said shaving brush carrying shank is reversed and then engaged into the casing, its reversely tapered portion b being crowded to frictionally bind in the said internal tapered wall d; and when the parts are in these relations the combined casing C and sheath Crservel as the shaving brush handle.

Either or both ends, as the liguresin the drawing are viewed, the left hand end of the sheath G or the right hand end of the easing C, or both, may have removable closing caps adapted to have frictional engagement with such end portions of the stated parts.

The casing C is provided with the perforations g inclined as shown, so as not to be engaged by the bristles of the shaving brush when the latter is inserted in the casing, such perforatonsA being for free entrance of air to assist in the drying of the shaving brush after the same shall have been used and returned to its inclosed position.

The sheath G when in its distended position forms a casing and inclosure for the tooth brush or for another object to be carried supplemental to a brush, which when not in use is carriedl within, and inclosed by, the casing C, for instance, a stick of shaving soap or a dentifrice.

In Fig. 2, the extension from the shank B opposite from the brush bristles may be a tubular casing, as represented at L for containing a shavingsoap.

If4 the brush with which the casing L is combined is to be a tooth brush, such casing itself has a receptacle or container for tooth powder or paste.

The main casing C of the device, as also the sheath G, may be composed of hard vulcanized rubber, Celluloid or the like, or thin metal, easily and cheaply produced, irrespective of the selection of the material stated, or any other material having itness to the' purpose..

The device described, as apparent, is convenient and desirable for one having occasion to travel frequently, as the parts are susceptible of ready utilization, and, therefore, when carried 1n a suit case or traveling bagithe' brush orv brushes are practically inclosed, and the fact that the latter may be more or less wet is of no consequence or detriment. Y f

I claim A brush carrying member, including a shank portion of circular cross section correspondingly forwardly and rearwardly tapered, a cylindrical casing open at each end having the inside wall at one end formed outwardly flaring, having its external wall surrounding such flaring wall outwardly beveled or expanded and having its external surface at its other end oppositely outwardly beveled or expanded, and a sheath or shell telescopically combined with the casing having one end thereof contracted so that when the sheath is properly slid in either direction the contracted end portion thereof will have a pinching or binding engagement with either of the expanded external end portions of the casing.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass., in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK GRANT.

Witnesses:

G. R. DRIsooLL, WM. S. BELLows.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

